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shiloh asked a very interesting question that i couldn't figure out how to answer, because admittedly i didn't KNOW the answer. so, i opened livejournal and posed her question to the people on my list (i post closed entry to listed people only, more privacy that way for my unmentionables, ahem), and i alerted them that SHE would be reading and answering the comments.
they became so cute i about DIED by laughing and cuteness overload -- please note this is all her, typing and everything. she chose to use my arwen icon for all her replies. is she not the most hilariously cute person??!
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leander kinney (lanthanum) wrote,
@ 2004-05-23 11:35:00
omg help?!
i'm so stupid, because i'm really not sure what to tell her! so help me:
shiloh wants to know: if an astronaut was in space, and for some reason or another his/her helmet fell off and began to float away from him/her ... could s/he hold their breath long enough to say, reach out, snag the helmet, and attach it back on? because i know there is no air in space, so for some reason i'm thinking the atmosphere alone would still cause some kind of instant/close to instant death, whether or not you could hold your breath for a minute; like something to do with crushing?
i also realise that the chance of your helmet just oop! popping off in space is pretty impossible. but 9-year-old's don't care about that; as far as shi's concerned at this point, a helmet COULD fall off in space because they CAN fall off on earth, ehehe! so help a brother out! give her your answer, i'm going to let her read the comments!
COMMENTS:
1: weirdchick:
Well, look at it like this: there are air molecules throughout your body, and especially in your lungs. The air pressure between space and the atmosphere of the space suits is so great that to lose your helmet would cause your head to explode. Not in that Hollywood big boom of brains flying everywhere way, but the air molecules would swell very very quickly within your body and have no means of escape... and therefore you would explode.
There is a theory that if you were able to retrieve the helmet after a few seconds and put it back on that you might live. I don't know how true that is, though.
---- shiloh's answer:
gross!
2: weirdchick:
Oh! Some more stuff, since I got all interested in this and had to ask my dad...
He says that you could probably live through it if the helmet was to float away, but the helmets are usually pressurized and so the helmet wouldn't pop off and float away... it would be accelerated out. Most humans would panic and the pain of what would be happening to you would probably make it hard to grab the helmet right away.
But if it were to pop off, you immediately grabbed it and put it back on, you'd be okay. That's what he says.
Another interesting thing: space is very cold. Not like winter cold, but in that -230 degrees type of way. He says that it's so cold that if you had your eyes open when the helmet popped off that the water over your eyes would instantly freeze.
---- shiloh's answer:
GROSS! if your head popped since brains are wet would those freeze too
i would be scared but i would sitll grab my helmet right away i think
3: tiane:
hi shi!!
---- shiloh's answer(s):
HI TIANE MOM IS TAKIN G ME TO SEE HARRY POTTER
#2 (seperate comment):
AND I LOVE YOUR ACCENT
then puppeteerhatter (edward scissorhands icon) posted a link that had the ultimate answer, which shiloh and i read aloud. then there was this comment:
5: mein lied:
Hehee. I think I wondered that too once.
Never found an answer though.
Until now!
YAY. I don't really need a helmet. -snickers-
HI SHI!!! -Waves-
---- shiloh's answer:
hello !there is a link with an answer that sort of makes sense from edward scissor hands
mom says no no from HATTER and we just read it out loud. thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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my void does not want.
-- 2.13.61.
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